The Dickinson press., 1887-10-22
WOMAN AND HOME.
THE DlscouRTEsY OF THE FAIR
SEX TOWARD EACH OTHER.

Learn to Tighten DEMONSTRATING of
Daughters-A Decorative Novelty-Thc
Domestic Money 9uestion-Middie Nor
gan.Neighbors-The Baby-Notcs.
However d%eferential and courteous women
are in their bearing toward men, they are
far too apt to be rude to their own sex.
They indulge i'll Prescriptions toward each
other that men of their class would never
think OF inficting upon men. This dis
courtesy of women toward their kind is none
the less rudeness and vulgarity because it Is
OH an average of Il small, whimsical, petu-
liant type. 1t is not only evidence OF i'm
perfect breeding, but supreme, though UNI
conscious, selhshness.
They give scant heed to each others rights.
They push and iostle each other Mt theatre
entrances on matinee days. They fill up that
portion of u seat i'll q suburban train they do
not occupy withparcels. If other females no
less intrepid i'll absorbing the p~rerogatives of
others than they, but q little behind them i'll
appearing, ask for the space to be cleared
they grurnble and scowl, adopting the most
ungracious manner possible.
A sweet faced young woman, accompanied
by an old lady with white hair, slowly walked
through a suburban car the other afternoon.
The young lady paused wherever some well
dressed woman sat with the evidences of her
days shopping beside her. Not one made q
motion OF invitation to share her seat. Each
woman looked intently down or in an oppo-
site direction.
AT last the young lady stopped before one
woman whose face indicated the possession of
a kindly nature.
"Madam," she said sweetly, twill you allow
me to assist you in disposing Of your pack
ages, 80 that my mother can sit down beside
your
The amiability i'll the placid face of the
woman addressed was dispelled as by magic
at the gently voiced request.
~ want to keep my things together con
veniently," was the ungracious reply.
The answer appeared to nettle the girl into
swift self assertion. She placed one hand on
the seat and looked the speaker in the face
with straight determination.
"Did you pay two faresf' she inquired.
"Tha has nothing to do with it. l hurried
to catch the train, so that l could have plenty
of room, and people who are late have no
right to come disturbing those who nave
taken pains to get here first"
"Ah! think l will have my mother sit
down here Notwithstanding" was the cool
answer, as the young lady piled the articles
OF the floor and assisted her mother to the
place they had occupied.
II shall speak to tho CONDUCTOR" snapped
the owner of the things. cts a pretty how
de-do if people who have a lot of packages
have got to divide their seats with others who
have none"
When the conductor came through the
belligerent dame contented herself with
merely glaring significantly on the girl, who
stood leaning against the end of the car.
In shops where the customers and clerks
are nearly all women the manners of both
buyer and seller arc frequently %abominable
toward each other. Tho women in suit de-
partments wear an mir of defensive indiffer-
ence unless the customer they chance to have
Is one well known to them and q good pur-
chaser. The saleswomen are accustomed to
and cxpectant of rudeness on the part of the
patron, and prepare for it by the assumption
of q manner nc less Objectionable than the
one they resent.
They are the continual victims Of the
t%houghtless selishness and petty stings Of
their sex. Their patience is ripped and
frayed to threads every day by the uncalled
for demands Of idle women who arc not shop
pers, because they seek the stores for amuse-
ment and not to buy.
The woman who has nothing to do is very
apt to seek the shops for entertainment She
does not stop to consider that her divertise-
ment Is taken at the expense Of a sister, and
She forgets or does not know that the salesgirl
whose time she occupies i'll showing her
gowns or wraps is not only hired to display
garments, but to sell them. She is careless
of the fact that if this young PERSONS book at
the weeks end makes but q small showing in
sales, while her hours have been taken up in
showing goods. her ability as a salcswoman
is doubted in consequence. She forgets that
the result is ut the best not the increase of
salary the girl is hoping for. 1t is not only
the possible but frequent result of her amuse-
ment that the girl is 'laid off, or discharged
for inconpetcncy.-Janet Dale in Chicago
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